Above: Remember this from 2015? It was all a Big Lie. The Arizona Constitution requires the state legislature to enact a state budget before the start of the new fiscal year on July 1. In addition, the legislature really only had two priorites to address this year: (1) the school funding cliff that the last … Read more
We have to take a trip with Mr. Peabody and Sherman in the WAYBAC machine to 2018 when this case first went to court (filed in 2017). School capital funding case goes to court, Governor Ducey only offers pennies on the dollar of what is actually owed: The other day I pointed out that Governor … Read more
Thanks to all the federal pandemic relief aid provided to Arizona by Congress, which Gov. Ducey and the GQP-controlled legislature want to redirect to corporations and their wealthy campaign contributors in yet another unwarranted tax cut – in direct defiance of the express prohibition in the federal legislation that it be used to backfill budget … Read more
Gov. Ducey and our lawless MAGA/QAnon Republican legislature tried to nullify the constitutional right of Arizonans to enact citizens initiatives to improve funding for public education, which they have steadfastly refused to do for many years. Voters approved the Invest In Ed Act (Proposition 208), to impose a small surtax on the wealthy to generate … Read more
This movie has been shown before. Fiscally ignorant Republicans, worshiping the altar of trickle down-supply side Reaganomics enact massive tax cuts for the wealthy, claiming the resulting cuts will be made up for in revenues brought about by people spending more money that will produce more jobs and higher sales tax and working/middle-class tax receipts … Read more